[FLUME-1980] Log4jAppender should optionally drop events if append fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Hari Shreedharan
• Reporter: Hari Shreedharan
• Created: 08/Apr/13 23:08
• Updated: 10/May/13 23:28
• Resolved: 10/May/13 23:03

Description

We should allow a config to drop the event when append fails, rather than throwing an exception. Clients usually dont want the logging call to throw an exception and probably won't have code to handle this - especially when the code is some pre-packaged code and not their own.